Popular Salt=Water Game Fish 



The line is kept taut, reeled in when chance is 

 given; if it is impossible to reel, a series of short 

 "pumps" is tried. This ingenious device is used 

 with effect in all game fishing. 



"Pumping" is done by raising the rod slowly; 

 then it is suddenly dropped, and the slack line 



rapidly reeled; this method repeated, 

 Pumping , , ^ i_ 



gradually gams the clay, and the nsn is 



brought up. The yellow tail makes many rushes, 

 and "pumping" comes into play each time; it is 



gamy to the last, up to the time the 

 Chumming _/ 



gall enters its throat, and even alter it 



is lifted into the boat. At times the fish is a coy 

 biter; then "chumming" is the order of fishing; 

 but when it is once persuaded sport is assured. 



Being one of the commonest fishes of the Pacific 

 Coast the yellow tail is rarely eaten; those weigh- 

 ing from fifteen to twenty pounds, if properly 

 cooked, are excellent eating, though the larger 

 ones are somewhat tough. There is another 

 genus called the amber jack, common 

 on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and plenti- 

 ful in the vicinity of Palm Beach; it is 

 caught weighing from forty up to one hundred 

 pounds, and is also a vigorous fighter; but 

 the medium-sized fish are the hardest fighters; 

 this may be said of all game fishes in fresh 

 as well as salt water, naturally the heavy fish 

 not having the activity and snap of the younger 

 specimens. 



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